.INDIANAPOLIS-- The semifinals and champion of the 2025 National Invite Competition will definitely remain in Indianapolis and be played at historical Hinkle Fieldhouse for the 2nd consecutive year.Indianapolis will definitely additionally host the 2026 NIT semifinals and championship as component of the bundled Branches I, II and III Men's Baseball Champions earlier declared.The 2025 semifinals will definitely occur Tuesday, April 1, with the championship game placed for Thursday, April 3. Pantryman University and the Indiana Sports Company once more will act as hosts for the occasion.The 88th NIT will certainly remain to include a 32-team industry with the first round, second sphere as well as quarterfinals dipped into grounds websites. For the 4th year, the 2025 NIT will certainly seed merely the best 16 groups (top-four groups in each sheath) as well as put the continuing to be 16 teams picked right into the brace geographically where possible.In the 2024 NIT, both the semifinals as well as national championship were actually sold out at Hinkle Fieldhouse with greater than 9,000 present over each evenings.Also, the NIT added previous men's baseball instructor Phil Martelli and Event USA Associate Administrator for Basketball Clifton Douglass to the NIT committee starting with the 2024-25 season.A legend amongst Large Five instructors, Martelli is actually the winningest coach in the record of St Joseph's guys's baseball. With an enduring document of 444-328 in the course of his 24 years as scalp instructor of the Hawks, Martelli led St. Joseph's to the NCAA competition seven opportunities as well as to 6 NIT looks. In 2003-04, Martelli's team rattled 27-straight victories ending up the regular period unbeaten and also placed number one in the nation just before being actually upset in the Atlantic 10 Conference quarterfinals. That staff after that gained 3 NCAA tournament games before losing to Oklahoma State in the East Rutherford Regional last.Douglass participated in the Association USA personnel in 2016 and also ended up being associate administrator for basketball in 2021. Besides his accountabilities with both males's and females's baseball, Douglass also supplies mistake for ladies's football and women's golf as well as worked as chair of the NCAA Division I Women's Soccer Committee for pair of years. As a student-athlete, Douglass was a two-year captain of the men's baseball staff at Alcorn State.Martelli and Douglass will certainly sign up with an NIT board that will be chaired through Tim Duncan, vice president of athletics and recreation at New Orleans. Other members of the 2024-25 NIT Committee are actually Morgan State Vice Head Of State and Supervisor of Athletics Dena Freeman-Patton, as well as former Branch I guys's baseball trains, Bob McKillop, Gary Seas and also Bob Williams.All NIT video games are going to be actually transmitted real-time all over ESPN systems. To learn more on the championship check out ncaa.com/NIT.